Email marketing · paid internship · in The Studio
A paid internship with uncapped upside and room to grow. You don't need any marketing experience (if you have some, that helps). You'll sit next to the cofounder and CMO at The Studio, a coworking space in Hong Kong just for e-commerce brands, and you'll start by rebuilding our email marketing from the ground up using AI.
Hey! We've paid agency after agency to run our email, and none of them got it right. They juggle 30 clients and run the same playbook on all of them.
So this time I want one sharp person in the office every day who owns it properly. I'll teach you everything I know about performance marketing, and you'll rebuild our email from the ground up.
Albert
You'll go deep on email first. Study what the fastest-growing brands do with their flows, design and writing, use AI to learn it fast, and build a feel for what separates great email from average.
Then you'll pull apart our Klaviyo account, flows, list and numbers. You'll use AI, your own judgment and my input to work out what's actually going on.
This isn't about making our current emails look nicer. Based on what you learn about our customer, you'll decide what babybub's email should be, make some bold calls and test them.
This is the number we're trying to move. Your bonus is based on it, and there's no ceiling on it.
Engineering, philosophy, biology, whatever. What matters is that you got through something hard where you had to read dense material and form your own opinions. That's a big part of this job too.
If you've taught yourself harder things than a degree would have, and you can show us, that counts just as much.
Done some email, run ads, made content, started a little store, or just can't stop studying why some brands win? Tell us. We still build this from the ground up, but thinking like a creative performance marketer gets you there faster.
You'll use AI all day. It'll teach you Klaviyo in an afternoon and draft anything in seconds, but it doesn't know our customer or our margins, so it will confidently tell you the wrong thing.
We want someone who notices when that happens, pushes back and adds the missing context. If you copy and paste whatever it says, this isn't for you.
You're paid while you're learning, and what you earn moves up with what you take on.
Everyone in a performance role at babybub has one and none of them have a ceiling. The bonus moves with what email actually brings in, so the better it does, the more you make.
We're very open. You'll see the numbers, the ad accounts, the launches, what's working and what isn't, and how we make decisions day to day.
Once email is running and mostly automated, you can keep going deeper, or hand it off and take on the next part of performance with me. There's no set path. If you show you can own something, you get to own it, and there's a senior performance seat here to grow into.
I'm Albert, co-founder and CMO of babybub. Eli and I built it together and still run it between us. He owns product and operations, I own performance marketing: the ads, the creative, the landing pages, and now email.
You'll see how the whole brand works from the inside. Email is yours to rebuild, and I'll coach you through it rather than do it for you. How far you go from there is up to what you prove you can take on.
The Studio is a members-only workspace on Hollywood Road, built for DTC founders and e-commerce operators. Everyone in the room is either running a brand or working on one, so it's nothing like a normal office.
babybub works out of there alongside brands like FluffCo, Rest, (vrsn), Nancy, I·M·8 and Chamelo. People trade notes on ads, launches and suppliers, and the space hosts product launches, dinners and panels. If you want a career in e-commerce, it's a really good room to start in, and you'll pick up a lot just from being around it.
The Studio records Elevator Talks, a podcast with some of the biggest operators in e-commerce. Recordings happen often, and if you work from The Studio you're always welcome to come sit in and listen.
Yes. We care much more about how you think and how fast you learn, not what you already know.
No. Experience in email, paid ads, creative or DTC is a real plus. We'll still build this from the ground up together, you'll just move faster.
You'll own it, but you won't be on your own. You're next to me every day and I'll coach you as you go.
It's a real role. From your first week you'll be working on email revenue for an 8-figure brand, not doing coffee runs.
No, but you'll need to get really curious about the people who buy from us.
We've tried agencies and they split their focus across dozens of clients. We want one person who thinks about babybub all day, learns directly from the CMO, and gets better every week.
We want you in the office every day or close to it. If you're finishing uni and need some flexibility, tell us in the form.
Whatever works. We use Claude and ChatGPT heavily, plus Klaviyo, Shopify and the rest of our stack. You'll get access to what you need.
About ten minutes. Basic details, then the parts we actually read: something hard you taught yourself with AI, a brand email in your inbox that's bad, and a link to something you've built.
Have that link ready before you start. If you haven't built anything yet, go and build something first.
If the form looks good we'll set up a short call online. There's nothing to prepare, we'll just open up what you sent and talk through it with you.
If that goes well you'll come into the office, we'll have a chat, and we'll both work out whether it's a good fit.